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Aquasana Refillable Stainless Steel Water Bottles and Glass Water Bottles Are Awesome

Even though I do not work outside the home, I am still gone a lot.  I'm busy and find myself away from home more than I'd like to be, yet I always want to have healthy water available to drink, so I get my recommended amount for each day. 

In case you don't know how much water to drink, the rule of thumb is 64 ounces a day.  Recently I read that you should consume 1/2 ounce for every pound you weigh, so take your weight and divide it by two and that will give you the number of ounces per day you should drink. That would mean a 124-pound person should drink the 64 ounces and day, but if you are over that weight then you need more.  Now don't be thinking I'm going to share my weight here for all to see --- I'm not going to share that --- but I do need a tad more than the 64 ounces a day.

I don't like drinking out of aluminum bottles or plastic bottles, so when Aquasana recently came out with  stainless steel water bottles, I jumped at the chance to order some.  It's a perfect way to bottle my own from my Aquasana filtered water.

The stainless steel water bottles are durable with no chemical liner and are completely BPA free.  Even the lid is stainless steel, so there is no contact with plastic.  Plastic bottles and lids all leak traces of dangerous chemicals into the water. 

When you buy bottled water from other sources you have to wonder if the water in those bottles are safe to drink.  Advertising campaigns imply that when you compare their bottled water VS tap water, the water in those plastic bottles is cleaner and purer. Recently, in 2008 an organization known as the Environmental Working Group proved just the opposite. 

Using independent laboratories, the group had a number of different brands tested for contaminates and impurities.  In all cases, contaminates were found.  In some cases the level of contamination was higher than allowed by regulating agencies for publicly supplied water.  I say, be safe and bottle you own Aquasana purified water to take along with you.

Besides the danger of plastic, I dislike the taste of water that has been left in plastic, especially if the bottle is kept in a car that gets heated up from the sun.  Even though at times my bottle is left in the car, and the water gets warm, the  stainless steel water bottles still deliver water that taste good, and quenches my thirst on a hot day.

Aquasana also carries  glass refillable bottles to store water in.  Glass is also better than plastic, because it can safely be used over and over, and it is 100% recyclable.  Plastic bottles end up in the landfill causing problems to the environment.

Since 2002, organizations including the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Sierra Club, the World Wildlife Fund and Corporate Accountability International have been doing their best to convince consumers to buy fewer plastic bottles of all kinds.

On the other side of this, of course are the bottling companies, who say their bottles only account for a small percentage of the waste stream in the U.S. They say the bottles are recyclable and it is not their fault, but the fault of the consumer that chooses to throw the bottle away.  That may be true, but it doesn't change the fact that those plastic bottles are adding dangerous chemicals into the water. 

Glass also maintains the pure taste of the filtered water.  Look at this way you are helping to save the planet and providing your self with a wonderful glass of healthy water all at the same time if you are filling those glass water bottles and stainless steel bottles with your own filtered water form a system you know filters out all contaminates. 

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